Iceland
Figuration in Matter
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The Iceland series explores the relationship between nature, matter, and light through the extraordinary landscape of Iceland. Volcanic formations, glaciers, waterfalls, coastlines, and the architecture of Reykjavík provide its visual foundations. Yet the works extend beyond the representation of physical landscapes, transforming familiar elements into environments where conventional spatial relationships no longer apply.
Mountains may appear suspended without gravity, glaciers merge with the sea, and architectural forms dissolve into their natural surroundings. The distinction between land and water, surface and depth, matter and atmosphere becomes increasingly uncertain. Scale loses its familiar meaning, while light ceases to function merely as illumination and becomes inseparable from the material itself.
Fragments of shipwrecks, volcanic formations, and architectural structures also bring different dimensions of time into a single composition. Human history and geological transformation overlap, dissolving the boundaries between past and present, natural and artificial.
The series includes two original works exhibited in Reykjavík in 2026, painted on the reverse of acrylic, as well as subsequent works developed from photographs taken in Iceland. Through layering, blending, erasing, and recombining these photographic elements, recognizable forms are transformed into spatial relationships that could not exist in ordinary reality.
Iceland is therefore not simply a depiction of its remarkable scenery. It is an exploration of the underlying relationships between water, stone, light, and time, reconstructing the actual environment into another reality while preserving its connection to the place from which it emerged.
Set in Reykjavik, Iceland, this work layers Ásmundarsalur, a historic art space, with a shipwreck fragment, volcanic lava, and surrounding landscape, linking human history with Iceland’s powerful geological forces today.
Hallgrímskirkja rises within a nirvana-like field where Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja emerges within a nirvana-like field where architecture and Icelandic nature dissolve into one another. Layers of rock, ice, water, and blue light merge, while the church spire remains suspended in an indeterminate space between darkness and light.
An aurora appears over Reykjavík. Light turns into particles and mingles with matter; sea, mountains, and city dissolve together, while the grains of light still keep their own undeniable presence.
Kirkjufell, glaciers, and the waterfall at its base dissolve into one another, erasing spatial boundaries. The summit appears suspended without gravity, while glaciers merge with sea and shore and the waterfall moves through an indeterminate space. Light and matter become indistinguishable in a world without stable depth or horizon.
Valahnúkamöl is a volcanic coastal formation on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Using fragments of a shipwreck found in the sea and along the shore, the work dissolves scale and the boundary between matter and light, while the rocks remain dominant.